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The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert
de Isaacson, Rupert
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- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0802117392
- ISBN 13
- 9780802117397
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Grove Press, 2003. xiv, 278 pages; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First U.S. Edition. Fine DJ. "Although brought up in "grey, drearily ordinary" London, Rupert Isaacson's links to Africa were strong. Polly, his mother, was a South African and his father was raised in what is now Zimbabwe. Polly kept her memories of Africa alive and handed them on to her children via remembrances to her early life there. Thus, from an early age, Isaacson was fascinated: 'Long before I ever went to southern Africa, its names and regions had been described to me so many times that I could picture them in my mind's eye. After growing up with these tales and myths - mostly of the Kalahari Bushmen - Isaacson journeys to the dry vast grassland, which stretches across South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia, to discover the truth behind these childhood stories. Deep in the Kalahari, Isaacson meets the last group of Bushmen still living the traditional way, caught between their ancient culture and the growing need to protect and reclaim their dwindling hunting grounds. Dawid Kruiper, leader of these Xhomani Bushmen, allows Isaacson to observe their daily life, and he begins to understand the extent of their disenfranchisement. They have not only decreased in number, but have been literally reduced to beggars, having lost their land and their means of subsistence, and with that their identity as a people has been profoundly threatened. The Healing Land records Isaacson's personal transformation amid these extraordinary people and his passionate contribution to their political struggle. It captures his enchantment with the character, kindness, and confusion of a place that has wrenched itself from the Stone Age into the new millennium." -- Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
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- Título
- The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert
- Autor
- Isaacson, Rupert
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Edición
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0802117392
- ISBN 13
- 9780802117397
- Editorial
- Grove Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2003
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Catálogos del vendedor
- African / Traditional Arts;
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